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Topic: Uphill both ways!! (Read 1771 times)

So ya know the old story from Grandpa or Dad, of having to walk up hill both ways just to go to school and home again. And in the snow at that.

I do a 5 mile walk every day. (unless we go into town and thats an all day trip) It is up hill starting out until I turn around and then come back home. Today I had a 30 mil hr wind coming down hill going home bucking it all the way home. It was feeling like walking up hill both ways. Sometimes I was getting guest of 35 to 40 and could not move forwards. Good thing there was no snow as I would have slid uphill for 10 miles. :))

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~ Ronald Reagan ~

I can relate, when I was a kid growing up in the Sacto. valley, I would leave the house in the morning bucking a North wind to deliver the paper 11 miles away, when I was done, the Delta breeze would kick in at around 25 mph going home, never really got a break, it was tough.

But when I got older, I would watch the weather and when there were North winds predicted to around 45mph, I would ride about 25 miles North, and open my supply parachute I got at the Army surplus and have one Hell of a ride home.

I tried using it once by jumping out of a giant Eucalyptus tree about 30' up, the ride was good till I caught a branch about 10' off the ground.My real life cartoon moment. ouch... :-[ ::) :))